April 9, 2026 • 39 mins
We are kicking off Season 3 with an inspiring Live episode of the Teach Me Something podcast! Hosts DJ Prostyle and Penny Dellas sit down with global recording artist, Grammy Award winner, and cultural icon Shaggy for a powerful conversation on purpose, discipline, and longevity.
From his early days serving in the military to becoming one of the most recognizable voices in music, Shaggy shares the mindset and resilience that fueled his rise to international stardom. His journey is a testament to reinvention, consistency, and staying true to your craft in an ever-evolving industry.
Diving into his latest album, Shaggy opens up about his creative process, how he approaches collaborations, and what it was like working alongside Robin Thicke to create a fresh, dynamic sound that bridges generations and genres.
With excitement building for the KTU 30th Anniversary Concert, Shaggy also gives fans a glimpse of what to expect on stage — from timeless hits to new music that continues to push boundaries.
From service to stardom, this episode is a celebration of growth, legacy, and the power of believing in your path — no matter where it begins.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, what's up.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
This is DJ pro Style and this is Penny Tellas
and this is Teach Me Something.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
Brought to you by Berkeley College. Lot of this.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Welcome to season three season of Teach Me Something.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
This is season three already. I know. I didn't think
we were going to make it through season one, and.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
We'll here we are.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I'll be sick of you by now, but I'm not.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
You said what what?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Anyways?
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Season three, episode one, and this is a really beautiful
thing that we get to do. We always do a
live episode per season, So shout out to the entire
iHeartMedia team.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
That has made this happen in the back.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
All right, well listen, I know you guys are ready
to see the star of the night, international superstar legend Shaggy.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
So are you ready to bring them out?
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Let's bring out global recording artists, Grammy Award winning the
one the only Shaggy.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
My brother.
Speaker 6 (01:00):
You got dismatched people to come here tonight. Let's amazing,
we paid them. Let me say hi to the gorgeous ones.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
Lovely show y'all doing you good?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (01:14):
LoVa, LoVa like that.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yes, it's funny because up to like two minutes ago,
Shaggy was like, so, what are we doing exactly?
Speaker 5 (01:21):
I didn't. I just walked out. I was like, we're
doing you know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (01:24):
I came down here and they gave us free food.
Y'all got food.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Yeah, Oh, they got a lot of food.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Shout out to Golden Corral, gold In Corral, Okay, and
it is.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Signs that they're gonna bribe me with Jamaican food. And
then they said, oh, by the way, we got a
bunch of people for you to meet.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah, a lot of this is true. By the way,
a lot of this is true.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
It is all true.
Speaker 6 (01:45):
Well, it's a good thing. I like you guys.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
So Penny here my my amazing host and co host.
She has the car and she has amazing questions. You
know me, I'm just gonna freestyle it with you, and yeah,
she does the work talk.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Talk the way we talk diticipating.
Speaker 6 (01:59):
Yeah, there's only one professional sitting here.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
You're right, You're right much and it's not me or you.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Sha pretty much. That's what I'm saying. Thank God for that. Well, welcome,
Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Thanks ding Me Something podcast.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
And you've had an incredible career spanning over so many decades.
What inspired you to come back and produce this new album?
Because I was jamming to Lovely Lovely on the way here.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Oh Lovely? Yeah, you know, this is what I do.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
I've done a Shaggy studio album, like a full Shaggy album,
in about eight years. I've done projects in between, like
you know. I did the four four eight seventy six
with me and Sting. We want to grammar for that
and went on the world tour. I did Sinatra record
Sinatra songs in reggae.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
Have you ever heard of that? Yell leave you should? Yeah,
that's crazy.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
It's actually I did Frank Sinatra songs in reggae right,
produced by Sting, you know.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
And if you go listen to that.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
You might have to smoke something while you listen to it.
But anyway, it is. It is fantastic, one of my
one of my best things I've ever done. I didn't
even know I could do it, but I did that,
and I did. Anybody here like Soca music? Yeah, so
I did a Soca a Soca project with me and Kess.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
So yeah called Mood.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
And now I just decide I wanted to do a
Shaggy record for my fans, and I just said, let
me just do this and I put it together.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
What was it like choosing the collaboration with Robin Thick?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
You know a thing?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Well that's out right. In anticipation of the.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Album, I got three songs that I put out so far,
and they're all collaboration. I normally make the songs dictate
the collaboration. So with like Boombody was with Akon and Idonia. Uh.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
You know when I.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Did that record, COSTI is the is the guy that
produced that record head I Need Your Love, you know,
and go down there with Spice and Sean Paul.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
So you know, he gave me that track.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
I was just like, you know, I came up with
a chorus and all I was like, this is a
Kon And then I called Akon.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
I sent it to him and he was like, shay.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
I'm gonna pull up and he actually flew in and
actually cut the vocals. Everyone else sent me their vocals,
but he showed up and uh and.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
He danced all people are here. So I did another single.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
I just dropped with me Barris Hammond and oh yes
and my brass hamming people here and dext adapts. Yeah.
So that that one was to just drop about I
think two weeks ago, second week now, and uh, this Friday,
we just dropped, uh looking lovely with me and Robin
Thick and that's you know, that's the kype kind of records.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
The cheat code, the cheat code we talked about.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Yeah, the cheat code, you know.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
So with that, I sampled A Lovely Day from Bill
Withers and me and Robin just did this really beautiful melody.
It's a complimentary song, mad I say you looking lovely
this evening, your beautiful landed shows. It's just beautiful compliments, ladies,
something I think is missing these days, you know, fellas.
Let me tell you something. If you want to score compliments, okay,
(05:18):
in other words, if your girls say how I look
in this geens, you better say fantastic. Now.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
What makes it amazing with you, Shaggy, just going through
some of those collaborations, is that you have the ability
to reach out to so many different, you know, artists
that are, whether they're old school iconic artists, whether they're
new artists. Everyone wants to work with you, and you
have all these amazing ideas. I mean, it must be
a blessing to know that you can come up with
any idea kind of and fill that void at any time.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
You know what it is.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Most of the collaborations of me are based on relationships
like I'm friends with I'm really true friends with Acon.
You know what I'm saying, I'm Barris and Ised.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
I call them Uncle Barris'.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
You know what I mean. Dex to is you know,
dance all fraternities this small so we all family and Robin,
Robin and I struck up a friendship at the f
one in Houston and meet him and white Cliff had
at a great party night hung out and you know, we.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
Just truked that friendship both.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
We kept texting back and forth and I was like, yo,
I got to join for you, and I sent it him.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
He was just like, Yo, this is fire. Let's go.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yeah, the record is amazing.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Thank you very no.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
We want to make history by you guys performing that
record for the first time on stage at r K
t U thirty year anniversary.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
It just might happen.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Might just happen. Right, you heard it here first first,
all right.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Some surprises.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
So you want to go back to the beginning for
the people here in the audience, the people watching, the
people listening wherever they're listening right now to teach me something. Uh,
your background stem this whole music career stemmed from the military.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Correct.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Yeah. I was in the US Marines for four years
serving the First Gulf War, and I used to run
and see cadences. Those cadences was later on I found
out was really vocal training. But how did I know
because I used to sing funny cadences just because I
(07:14):
like cracking jokes. You know, I don't drink or smoke,
so I just cracked jokes all the time. So if
you take it to yourself too serious, you need it.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
You crack jokes.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
Yeah, well I really make insults when it comes to you.
So I would. I would run and see cadences like
I don't know, but I've been told my CEO, where's
pany Who's you know what I mean? And I'll sing
those cadences out loud. And when I was doing Oh Carolina,
(07:42):
I decided I would just use that voice, so I said,
you know, Old Carolina, and then everybody was like, oh
my god, it's so great, we love it. And then
Virgin Records came and gave me a million pounds. At
that time when I was in England. I was like, wow,
this is crazy. And so the next record I wrote
was mister Boombaska. I said, let me use that for
mister LoVa. Yeah, and then he gave me another million.
(08:04):
I said, well I could get used to this. Ill
keep doing this right, Yeah, so you know, I just
I'll just do it on every record now, you know,
and if they pay me more, I'll.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Just start talking y'all.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
What's up?
Speaker 6 (08:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Hi everybody, no prospect. Yeah, I'm want to do the
rest of the interview like this just in case Kate
to you pay me.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
It's not happening. It's definitely not.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
But talk about a career pivot.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
So the pot is powered by Berkeley College, and at
Berkeley College we have a very large office of Military
and veteran affairs population. So what piece of advice would
you give those students that want to make that shift,
that want to do that pivot and maybe don't know
where to start.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
You need to go into the military, shift out of
out of the military. Oh okay, well you know I didn't.
I didn't do I'm I didn't go life. I say
life because in the military, to say, once you do
twenty years, you're a lifer. You know. I did four
years and I was like, okay, disable me. But it
did teach me everything I need to know and prepare
(09:14):
me for this job. You know. For instance, when I'm
if I'm doing interviews, I've been on a press press
day today from earlier this morning around six am, and
I'm probably gonna be I'm on a Sharry Show tomorrow,
which is another six am, you know, and I'll go
straight down till late. So to prepare you for this,
you know, it really takes a lot of discipline, and
(09:35):
the military provides that discipline for you. You could take that
discipline to do anything that you want in life because
you got that in the military. You can't even get
promoted unless you really even balancing your checkbook. We don't
have check books anymore, but even making sure your your
credit is good and all of that, because if it's not,
you're not getting promoted either, you know what I mean.
(09:56):
So it really prepares you for being there.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
You know.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
If I had it my way, everybody as soon as
you come out of high school should serve the military, right,
But I would just put a sciputation that you couldn't
go to war.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
It's a little tough, you.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Know what I said, Because even then with the Gulf War,
there was like, oh, this is a low casualty war,
you know, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. You know,
one son or daughter from her mom and her pop
is not low casualty. And I just think that when
you're that young, I think it should be it should
be mandatory, like a year or two years of the military,
(10:35):
and then after that it should be you making the
decision whether you want to stay in the military or not.
But within the first two years, no one should be deployed.
And I just think everybody would be straightened out. All
them kids who don't want to get up early and
all of that you know that dead because of your
gut in the house that don't do military straightened the
(10:55):
amount one time.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
Trust me, they.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Used to throw like a trash can down my squad
click on, get them get up. I didn't push ups
at the Drilldren's trucks and say you're gonna do push
ups until I'm tired. But he ain't doing nothing, so.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
We're gonna make you do push ups whenever you're late
in the studio. That's I think that's fair.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
You should do push ups until she is tired.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Wow, I like this game. I like this game, but
you're speaking.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
It's why I didn't go to the military.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
But going back to discipline, Discipline is so important in
any career path that you guys choose, and I do believe,
whether it's military or like even with our children, we
talk about with sports the biggest benefits, like, hey, we
don't care what sports is amazing, we don't care if
they become athletes, professional athletes, but the discipline that they're
getting with having to train, having to be there on time,
(11:44):
having to work with others is just a skill set
that's that everyone should have happen.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Ye, But well, kids, so it's you know, like all
my kids are gonna be spoiled, you know, it's it's
what it is because I'm spoiling. Yeah, yeah, you know,
and if you got money, they damn sure gonna be spoiled.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
My kids aren't spoiled at all.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Your kids.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
I have no kids. I have a dog and he's very.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
Spoilt and he's spoiled.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
He's super spoiled. US knows it.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Astra somewhere here there we go dogs dogs up there and.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
There you go. She's doing content.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
Mommy, I'm wearing hers, she's wearing her dog wearing my God.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
But we're speaking about transferable skills, and that applies to
any discipline that you pursue in life. If you look
at any situation, everything's a learning experience, right, even us
sitting here. You can have nuggets, you can take aways,
but I think the thought is really don't attempt to
replicate someone else, but instead to see what works for them,
and maybe that works for you or to your sons.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
And go and travel your own path.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Absolutely, yeah, yeah, definitely learning something. So we're always learning something.
You have to be willing to learn something. By the way,
every single day, right, we had an amazing guest on
our podcast that.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
What did you learn today?
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Pro style? Well, I learned to get to dress, I
learned how to dress to wear and gave me free
clothes today to Juju, Right, look at me, check my
pants and my shirt out.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I'm gonna learn that I have to give it right
back after this is over it too.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Yeah, Cale individuality lends him an outfit, he has to
give it back.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
We're doing grand ambassadorship today, right, it's just in the
podcast is I'm wearing a flood.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
The podcast is growing.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
We're growing, We're doing it well. You know some of
us work. Oh wow, Okay, all jokes aside.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
You know, I love you.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
We did say we were going to give you some
surprises today, okay, promoting some surprises. So we all know
that Shaggy is performing at the KSU thirtieth anniversary concert.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
No surprise there, yees, So that's out.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
But what you don't know is that that Teach Me
Something podcast will be present at the Gee You thirtieth
Anniversary concert.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Fantastic.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
So we're gonna have some activations.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
There's gonna be some surprises triggling in, so tune in
and you know what we.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
May bring you on stage. That's going to be a surprise.
You ready more?
Speaker 3 (14:13):
You told you?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Ready?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
All right?
Speaker 5 (14:15):
No you can.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I'm a page and dance like Saggie's you know, I.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Mean, like a backup dancer, the backup dancer type of thing.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
No, I want to take twerk dances.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Well, I'm out, all right, I like that very quick.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I like, ye, I'm out.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Where's Carolyn Whitman?
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Why she's going to be a tourk dancer? You just
nominated just immediately Carolyn.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Shout out to Carolyn. There's Carolyn's back.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
So if any of you want to have a place
at the ks you thirty anniversary, are interesting and doing
something with us, hit up Carolyn. She's going to be here,
you know, all night, well until seven thirty when we finish.
But catch Carolyn. Carolyn is a powerhouse. So shout out
to Carolyn Whitman that makes all of the world go
around at Iheartwork Lessons, the creative brain behind the podcast.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Karlyn shout out to flow Rider, who's also going to
be there, is going to be there, Paul Russell, and
we have some more people that we're gonna announce, So
it's going to be an amazing, amazing.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
So who's going to do that? When he sings that song?
Speaker 3 (15:17):
I think pro volunteered himself.
Speaker 7 (15:19):
Gosh, no viral. I mixed them up in the spirit
of surprises, ma'am, do you want to share any Are
you able to share anything?
Speaker 3 (15:35):
For your performance?
Speaker 5 (15:36):
For my performance, there will be uh pelvis movements, okay,
because they said if the spine don't jerk, nothing works,
So all right, surprise.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Talking about surprises, is there anything outside of music that
nobody knows about that.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
You want to share? What's that your work?
Speaker 6 (16:00):
It's a lot going on right now.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
We have time, Shacky, I have clearly, Yeah, we have time.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Okay, we want to know we have a good story
on a podcast.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Let's go, No, I have. I'm actually doing a musical
right now, Yeah, with me and my brother Sting, and
it's called The Last Ship. And I we just sold
out Amsterdam for a month, and I just came back
from Paris, which we just sold like sixty thousand tickets
(16:31):
throughout the for the last.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Four weeks in Paris.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
And we're going to be at the Metropolitan uppera House
here in New York City on June ninth to the fourteenth.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Congratulations on the sold out shows.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
That's incredible.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Yeah, so come and check out my acting chops on there.
It's starring me and Sting. It's called The Last Ship.
It's about it's really about stinks. Three personal to Sting.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
He wrote it about his childhood.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
They used to make ships, like eighty percent of the
world's ships used to be made in Newcastle in England,
and he's from that town, that shipyard town. And of
course technology came in and just economics within itself. The
economy got bad and they shut the shipyard down, and
(17:22):
all the workers decided that they were gonna build the
very last ship and finish it even though they shut
it down. So they broke in and built the ship
and finished it. The stories about that.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
Here's also a love.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
Story with Gideon, who's the main character, where he really
wanted to leave out of that town to do something
with himself, and he came back because he had he
had a child that was there and a love a
love affair, and so it's a really really cool story.
I play the Ferryman, which is I am I am
(17:55):
now not that it's okay.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
How I want.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
I didn't say very man, Okay, I am the fairy Man,
all right, And.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
I'm really I'm really a ghost.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
I'm I'm really the the the angel of death in
the way from the present world to the after life,
you know. But I'm like the only two characters could
see me is Jackie White, which is Sting's character, and Gideon,
which is the lead character, and they're the only two
could see me, and I get to be really, you know,
(18:35):
kind of funny. There's all even a crazy bar scene
and where everybody's singing and drinking them and I'm the
ghost like down in my guinness because when you die,
you don't necessarily have to go somewhere bad.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
You probably go you come cross over with me. It
was like, hey, we got the party. Yeah, so that
was the whole vibe, you know. I mean, so it's
come check it out.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
It's at the met You could all come there and
you know, and and check out my vibe over there,
me and Sting live. You know, I would give you
free tickets, but all want you to play for them anyway.
So well.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
You're red pro are you withholding jokes?
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Am I?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
What withholding jokes?
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Now? He was alive?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Yeah? Yeah, we have all not trying to keep it
somewhat professional.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
You know, what are you trying to say?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Shagger is my brother? Oh, shagg is my guy?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Not even with an audience, guys, not even with an audience.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Does anybody out there can we does anybody out there
have something that you want to ask Shaggy? By the way,
if we like, anybody want to raise their hand and
ask a question, anybody or Everybody's good.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
It's just interesting. That's full circle.
Speaker 8 (19:43):
Yeah, I'm here in New York watching you yet I
watched you in nineteen ninety seven in Uganda, yes, yes,
and you had a lodge following there. And now I'm
with Berkeley College.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
So it's just interesting, Okay.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
I like I like Uguon.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
I've been going to I used to go to Yugand
almost every year back in the days. Funny stories that
I think I played a statum Uganda, Kenya, that I
played a I played a concert in a stadium was
me and Patra and burn a Boy.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
Yeah, I remember that. Yeah, and burn a Boy reminded
me the other day when I was at the Grammar.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
He looks at me, he says, uh, you know we
played at a concert and he had opened at that
concert back that time.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
And I was like yeah, I said, yeah, yo, I
was the one that got weed for y'all.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Look where he's at now.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Yeah, and he's super, super huge. So it's it's a
lot of a lot of them times, you know, It's crazy.
And throughout the journey of my career, there's a lot
of people. Even we were doing promo in England and
the Spice Girl that was opening for us at them times,
and I mean in sync at one point it open
for us. Your nip time. That's how long I've been
doing this. Yeah, you know, so it's great to see
(21:04):
like all these artists.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Get with you doing this for so long. And it's funny.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Every time I've talked to you, you mentioned all these
incredible places around the world, places that I don't even
know how to pronounce, right, What is some of the
most memorable If there's anything that jumps out place that city,
place that you've performed at.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
I like performing at the.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Like remote places, you know, like I just did Saudi Arabia,
Like and this is my third time going to Saudi Arabia.
I remember the first time going. It was nineteen ninety five.
I thinks all the night I went to it's my
first time going to Dubai and it was not but desert,
like camels and desert, and then I go you go
back there now it's like a major city, you know
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what I mean. So it it's crazy to see transformation
and cities like like that that I've been to.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
You have been doing this a long time.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Oh yeah, I've been touring it for Yeah, bro, it's
been it's been a minute, you know.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
So it's cool. It's not bad. Oh yeah, He's something
that Mike, Oh.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
We got I got the Mica this on man legend.
My name is Fox. We grew up listening to you,
Okay after all these years by was it you? Uh?
Speaker 2 (22:18):
You know.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
That's that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
A Hi, Shaggy, nice to see you again.
Speaker 9 (22:28):
I was in one of your music videos, yes, with
DJ Rebel and mohambi ot me love you.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
I forgot it was a long time ago.
Speaker 9 (22:37):
But my question to you is, what is like the
biggest misconception that people have about you? Has Shaggy versus
who you really are when the music stops.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
Oh, I just think people think I'm more serious than
I am. I'm a really I'm a goofball. Yeah yeah,
I like I like to laugh. I like people who laugh.
I don't like people take them so serious. I think
that's one of the biggest misconceptions, you know, and I
think probably a lot of people think.
Speaker 8 (23:09):
That.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
There's some people might.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Look at me and think that what I sing on
the record is not my real voice. Some have done
that because I speak like this normally.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
It's like, is that really?
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
That's look, that was a great question.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Yeah, we have time for one more question.
Speaker 10 (23:30):
Yes, so I feel that what makes you super interesting
it's a diversity of all your projects. Well thanks how
you switch from the different genres of music, but also
you bring the old school with the MWS school with
what you did with Frank Sinatra. So I'm curious to
find out and forgive me if I'm if I'm if
I don't realize that you may have done some sort
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of collaboration like this, but what you do something that
will bring the Latin music in to your your your music,
your your creation, and what would be the Latino collaborator,
okay artists.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
That you would I've done many collaborate I just did
a collaboration was it the top of last year with.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
Me Anita and Wessen? Listen, listen, we see so we
did that.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
So I've been doing those for years, you know, me
and Nikki Jam. There is Sunset, which was me and
Nikki Jam and Faruko, you know what I mean. So
We've done a lot of those. I'm just gonna give
you another story just because you know, I'm going to
give you the history of it.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
You should know this pro style.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Do you know the first let me first reggae reggaeton record?
Do you know a record called the Boom Boom. I'm
another one called Mobeta Mobela all right, all right, so
you know the guy that did it was a guy
called el Henral and he's Panamanian. So and Heneral used
to go to a school called Erasmus Hall in Brooklyn. Yeah,
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and so that's the school that I used to go.
Him and I used to be in the same lunch room, right,
and I would they would beat the bench, the desk,
the lunch room desk, and I would spit lyrics and
dance all and he'd be on the side spitting it
amongst the Panamanian guys, doing it in Spanish. And if
you look at the earlier the earlier records that Elenro did,
he did like oh Chabaran's record. In these records, he
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would do them in Spanish word for word. So take
dance all records and do them in Spanish. And those
records became successful. And there's a guy, do you know,
Goonghi Rivera. You got it?
Speaker 6 (25:37):
So Gungu used to do.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
These clubs uptown at the time, right, And we used
to that used to be the crazy Spanish parties that
he used to keep.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
And me and heile en Erl used to go up there.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
So those was really the first set of And by
the way, those two records and the Boomboo, right, both
those records were released on VP Records. I don't know
if anybody know that, which is a reggae label. And
I'm saying, and this guy called Carl Williams, that's the
guy that was producing those records, and what he did
was named the genre reggaetne, right, because they used to
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just call it Spanish reggae, you know it and remember
and they call it reggaetne and of course after.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
This what what it was.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
That's that's crazy as the story. That's the story that
I'm telling you because that's where I was in saw right.
So and now it's a billion dollar industry, but that's
really where it started.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Ah, we learned some stuff today.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Gems were dropped like it.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
I just you know, that just shows how old I am.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Having a career.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Uh that has transcended, right, I mean you you really
are within your right and that what is the one
thing that keeps you going in those moments that you
may be facing adversity or you think you know, I'm
having a bad day.
Speaker 6 (26:58):
Today, I think I don't really look at it as
been a bad day. Is just a bad day. Be
lucky you have a bad day and not a bad life.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
So I mean, you know, we're full of adversity. You know,
at the end of the day, I could, I could
survive a bad day.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
It's fine, you know.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
I think the hardest thing for an artist like me
right now is to find is to be inspired.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
Find inspiration.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
That's probably my biggest challenge because I'm also a person
that get bored easily, and I'm allergic to boredom, so
I continuously try to find something to do every time
I get bored.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
People easy too.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
So if you're yeah, and you have the right, you know,
like who needs somebody that's boring? Like, you know, if
you're not, if somebody in your life is not bringing
value to your life or inspiring you to do to
be rate to get them out of your life, we
shouldn't be scared of closing chapters.
Speaker 8 (28:05):
You know.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
Sometimes sometimes we make it harder, you know, because we
decide that it's hard to really cut people off. But
it's not. You just go block, yeah, you know, you know,
and bottom line, if you block me, and I call
at least three times and you don't pick up. I
get the message. Yeah, you know you're making changes, and
(28:29):
I'm one of those changes. You know, Now, if I
continue to call four or five, six times, you should
turn around.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
And say it's a good thing.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
I blocked that motherfucker. You know what I'm saying. That's
you can't be scared of doing that. You could close
the chapter because there's something that's always there for you
and I look forward to.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
The next chapter.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Well, there's a reason season, right for some people, answering
or exiting your life and purging is healthy.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
As we grow, we change.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
Oh yeah, I mean person it's a transition. Yeah, the
person you are now is not the same person who
are five years ago, and you will not be the
next same person next five years. What are the odds
that people and you, that our friends are going to
grow in the same way as you changed? No way.
Have you all had friends that you've known from when
you was in high school and you were like inseparable
and then you see them later in life and it's like,
(29:19):
oh my god, here's my normal. Let's catch up, and
then you're like, not that personally for me, because that
person served their purpose in your life already You've already
learned everything you need to learn from that person, You
know what I mean? Move on, you know, let's not
let's all fight against boredom. It sucks that we should
make that and be inspired. I love that.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Let's fight against boredom?
Speaker 6 (29:41):
Yeah against all.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Right, new hashtag, guys, new hashtag.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
And in true teach Me Something podcast fashion, we always
end on a notes of legacy.
Speaker 6 (29:56):
You're talking the wrong person.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
No wait, wait, so if.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
You could articulate in one word what you would want
your legacy to be, what would that word be?
Speaker 6 (30:08):
All right?
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Boredom?
Speaker 3 (30:12):
So first one of season three, Shaggy, no pressure.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
No. The reason why I say this because I don't
believe in legacy, Okay, and I'll explain to you why
I don't. Anybody here has a great grandfather. Do any
of you know him or her know him? You know him? Well?
Speaker 6 (30:31):
Right? Did the rest of you know him? Probably not?
Speaker 5 (30:35):
Probably was a great man, right, but right now he's
just a picture on the wall. That's all all of
us is going to be. All Right, You look at Michael,
my kid right now, I have kids, My little daughter
I'd tell him about Michael Jackson.
Speaker 6 (30:49):
They say, who's that.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
Remember the other day when Kanye and Rihanna did a
record with Paul McCartney, Remember that joint, right, and all
the kids were texting Kanye and Rihanna is helping this
old white guy blow up. Yeah, And it was like,
that's Paul McCartney. Who's Paul McCartney. He's a beatle?
Speaker 6 (31:12):
What's a beatle?
Speaker 5 (31:14):
I'm just saying, it doesn't matter how huge you are,
You're just going to be a picture on the wall.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
We are all servants.
Speaker 5 (31:26):
You might look at me and say, shaggy, Oh he
wrote bombastic and wasn't me in Oh, such genius And
I don't think it was genius, but anyway, such genius
and all that thing, and he wrote I might have
physically written those songs, but I didn't. That was ordained
by a higher level, a higher beam. Those songs was
you know, they were bestowed up on you based on
(31:48):
whether or not you were worthy of them. It's like
building a house with four walls out of a brick,
and then you get to the roof and you need
a hammer, and you can't afford a hammer.
Speaker 6 (31:59):
I was like, I can't afford to put the roof on.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
And God said, here's mister bombastic, And I'm like, well shit,
I could build a roof and three more houses for everybody.
You know what I'm saying. This is how I look
at it. These are tools for you to change people's life.
Your purpose is to change people's life. We're just servants,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (32:19):
I go on tour.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
On my tour, I might have three hundred people that
are truck drivers, that are concession stand workers. They might
be stage handlers, you know, they might be parking lot attendance,
you know what I mean. That's three hundred electric bills,
school fees, you know what I mean. You know mortgagees,
(32:41):
you know what I mean. And and they might have
a kid that probably you know, gets a scholarship to
go to Ivy League school and they find a care
for cancer. I don't know. You're just part of an equation.
So for me, I look at everything that I'm doing
as me being doing a service. You're in the service business.
You're in the service business. We're all in the service
business based on what the talent was given. And you
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ever get to a part when I'm making records and
I'm just working hard and I'm just not getting any
hits anymore, and there's nobody buying my tickets to go
to my concert and everything, and that God just comes
in and says, thank you for your service.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
You're done.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
You've done it, you know what I mean. You can't
be mad at that. Everybody that I touch, I've changed
their lives. I wrote Hotshot record album. We sold ten million.
There was eleven people that bought homes and started their lives.
Now I don't talk to half of them because they're assholes,
but nevertheless, you know, they started a laugh their lives
and did something really really well. And that's what your
(33:40):
job is. So legacy for me doesn't really you know,
it doesn't stand the same for me. We're pictures on
the wall. So if whatever you want to remember me for,
you can, because I know it's just going to be
for a time. Because you know, you ask a kid
who's Elvis right now, they don't know either, and that
guy did some things, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
So I'm just that's how I feel about it.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
But that's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
You spoke about purpose and giving back and serving your community.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
And all should there's a time in your life you're
gonna go through it and then you're gonna just realize
what purpose is.
Speaker 6 (34:15):
And when that happens, it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Just give us a word, man, Just give us a word, bro.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
There are a lot of those serve purpose community.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
Yeah, there's a lot.
Speaker 6 (34:28):
There's a lot of words in there.
Speaker 8 (34:29):
Man.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
You know what the word I'll give you, bro, I'm
gonna leave you with this love there it is. There
was that so hard love, Noah, Because I'm gonna tell
you what, It's one of the most amazing emotions you
could feel. But it's also dangerous too because you you
have you ever have. Take for instance, you have a
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car that you know it ain't worth nothing, you know
what I mean, and you still pour money into it,
and your wife looks at you's.
Speaker 6 (34:59):
Like it's over. Yeah, but you're like, I got laid
in the backseat of that car.
Speaker 5 (35:06):
You know what kind of sentiments with that? I'm pro
style here, man, I mean, but at the end of
the day, that's sentiments that you're holding on to that
might not be serving you. So that emotion is a
is a crazy emotion. Love is wonderful, but love also
makes you vulnerable and You gotta be careful because people
(35:27):
will take your love, you know what I mean, and
and tap into your weakness.
Speaker 6 (35:31):
You know what I mean. But it is a wonderful,
wonderful feeling. If you ever in love, go for it.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Yeah, ah, okay, we heard you down here, all right.
I mean, he's schooled, doesn't.
Speaker 5 (35:49):
Because y'all didn't pay you for this, well, this is
when we fed you. You did feed Yeah, that was free.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
This is when you performed.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Y'all didn't pay for that food. DJ put the track on,
Quiet performed well, Shaggy on behalf of myself, I'm sure.
Penny Berkeley College, thank you, the iHeart family, everyone in
the building. We first of all want to say congratulation
on congratulations on so many years of six uh, congratulations
(36:23):
on the new record.
Speaker 5 (36:24):
New record. By the way, Shaggy and Robin think looking
lovely fellas, could I see all the hands of all
the guys who are here tonight with their girl.
Speaker 6 (36:38):
My condolences.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Download the track and play it.
Speaker 5 (36:41):
But download the track. It's a beautiful track. It's like
prophylactics you needed, so yes, go for it.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
We wanted to thank you for coming and joining us
on the teach me something podcast.
Speaker 5 (36:52):
Ye, we're having a conversation.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
This is this is what it's all about. That's what
to teach me something podcast is.
Speaker 5 (37:03):
It's fun that you could call it teach you something,
you know, because I know what she could teach me.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
You know, Oh here we go.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
You know, you know, balances things out for me.
Speaker 5 (37:14):
There's a lot to learn from pro Style, right, because
pro Style is you know, he's pretty much Jamaican. Yeah, yeah,
you know my rooms because that boy know how to
keep a job.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
That's right, that's all right. I thought you were going
to take some of my best cool man.
Speaker 5 (37:33):
You thought it was going somewhere else with it, right,
that's right, hard work over here, half approcess.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
He keeps teaching us every episode, that's right.
Speaker 6 (37:44):
Fantastic.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Don't jump into the smoker, right because.
Speaker 5 (37:49):
She cool know what.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
She was she was upstairs before this startsok, edition, This is.
Speaker 5 (38:00):
Great, fantastic man.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Yeah, we'll get you out of here after we have
a few more tiktoks me and Greeve.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Isn't that what's happening?
Speaker 3 (38:06):
Yeah, we have more to film. Just trust me.
Speaker 5 (38:09):
Yeah, the process, Well, I trust you, I don't I agree?
Speaker 3 (38:12):
I agree?
Speaker 2 (38:13):
Well we definitely, we're gonna look forward to seeing you.
First of all, again, everyone here is going to be
in the building of right, everyone's going to be there
for our thirty year anniversary concert event Hammerstein Ballroom right
here in the heart in New York City, May eighth,
So that's gonna be amazing. I can't wait to see
you come on stage and you know, bring bring, and
you know it's going to it's gonna be time. I'm
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definitely yeah.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
Well, thank you all for being here with us as
our live studio audience. So shout out to all of
you for making your debut on to Teach Me Something Podcast.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
I am Penny Dollas, I am DJ Prostow, and I'm
Shuggy and you could be listening to kat you it's
iHeart Darling. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (38:55):
I will take all of their jobs, but it doesn't
pay well.
Speaker 4 (39:00):
And this is presented by Berkeley College and iHeart Podcast.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Thank you all for joining. Tune in next time. Hey,
thanks for listening.
Speaker 4 (39:09):
Tune in next week for all new episode of Teach
Me Something, brought to you by Berkeley College.
Hey, what's up.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
This is DJ pro Style and this is Penny Tellas
and this is Teach Me Something.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
Brought to you by Berkeley College. Lot of this.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Welcome to season three season of Teach Me Something.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
This is season three already. I know. I didn't think
we were going to make it through season one, and.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
We'll here we are.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I'll be sick of you by now, but I'm not.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
You said what what?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Anyways?
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Season three, episode one, and this is a really beautiful
thing that we get to do. We always do a
live episode per season, So shout out to the entire
iHeartMedia team.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
That has made this happen in the back.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
All right, well listen, I know you guys are ready
to see the star of the night, international superstar legend Shaggy.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
So are you ready to bring them out?
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Let's bring out global recording artists, Grammy Award winning the
one the only Shaggy.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
My brother.
Speaker 6 (01:00):
You got dismatched people to come here tonight. Let's amazing,
we paid them. Let me say hi to the gorgeous ones.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
Lovely show y'all doing you good?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (01:14):
LoVa, LoVa like that.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yes, it's funny because up to like two minutes ago,
Shaggy was like, so, what are we doing exactly?
Speaker 5 (01:21):
I didn't. I just walked out. I was like, we're
doing you know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (01:24):
I came down here and they gave us free food.
Y'all got food.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Yeah, Oh, they got a lot of food.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Shout out to Golden Corral, gold In Corral, Okay, and
it is.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Signs that they're gonna bribe me with Jamaican food. And
then they said, oh, by the way, we got a
bunch of people for you to meet.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah, a lot of this is true. By the way,
a lot of this is true.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
It is all true.
Speaker 6 (01:45):
Well, it's a good thing. I like you guys.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
So Penny here my my amazing host and co host.
She has the car and she has amazing questions. You
know me, I'm just gonna freestyle it with you, and yeah,
she does the work talk.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Talk the way we talk diticipating.
Speaker 6 (01:59):
Yeah, there's only one professional sitting here.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
You're right, You're right much and it's not me or you.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Sha pretty much. That's what I'm saying. Thank God for that. Well, welcome,
Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Thanks ding Me Something podcast.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
And you've had an incredible career spanning over so many decades.
What inspired you to come back and produce this new album?
Because I was jamming to Lovely Lovely on the way here.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Oh Lovely? Yeah, you know, this is what I do.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
I've done a Shaggy studio album, like a full Shaggy album,
in about eight years. I've done projects in between, like
you know. I did the four four eight seventy six
with me and Sting. We want to grammar for that
and went on the world tour. I did Sinatra record
Sinatra songs in reggae.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
Have you ever heard of that? Yell leave you should? Yeah,
that's crazy.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
It's actually I did Frank Sinatra songs in reggae right,
produced by Sting, you know.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
And if you go listen to that.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
You might have to smoke something while you listen to it.
But anyway, it is. It is fantastic, one of my
one of my best things I've ever done. I didn't
even know I could do it, but I did that,
and I did. Anybody here like Soca music? Yeah, so
I did a Soca a Soca project with me and Kess.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
So yeah called Mood.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
And now I just decide I wanted to do a
Shaggy record for my fans, and I just said, let
me just do this and I put it together.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
What was it like choosing the collaboration with Robin Thick?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
You know a thing?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Well that's out right. In anticipation of the.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Album, I got three songs that I put out so far,
and they're all collaboration. I normally make the songs dictate
the collaboration. So with like Boombody was with Akon and Idonia. Uh.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
You know when I.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Did that record, COSTI is the is the guy that
produced that record head I Need Your Love, you know,
and go down there with Spice and Sean Paul.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
So you know, he gave me that track.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
I was just like, you know, I came up with
a chorus and all I was like, this is a
Kon And then I called Akon.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
I sent it to him and he was like, shay.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
I'm gonna pull up and he actually flew in and
actually cut the vocals. Everyone else sent me their vocals,
but he showed up and uh and.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
He danced all people are here. So I did another single.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
I just dropped with me Barris Hammond and oh yes
and my brass hamming people here and dext adapts. Yeah.
So that that one was to just drop about I
think two weeks ago, second week now, and uh, this Friday,
we just dropped, uh looking lovely with me and Robin
Thick and that's you know, that's the kype kind of records.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
The cheat code, the cheat code we talked about.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Yeah, the cheat code, you know.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
So with that, I sampled A Lovely Day from Bill
Withers and me and Robin just did this really beautiful melody.
It's a complimentary song, mad I say you looking lovely
this evening, your beautiful landed shows. It's just beautiful compliments, ladies,
something I think is missing these days, you know, fellas.
Let me tell you something. If you want to score compliments, okay,
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in other words, if your girls say how I look
in this geens, you better say fantastic. Now.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
What makes it amazing with you, Shaggy, just going through
some of those collaborations, is that you have the ability
to reach out to so many different, you know, artists
that are, whether they're old school iconic artists, whether they're
new artists. Everyone wants to work with you, and you
have all these amazing ideas. I mean, it must be
a blessing to know that you can come up with
any idea kind of and fill that void at any time.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
You know what it is.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Most of the collaborations of me are based on relationships
like I'm friends with I'm really true friends with Acon.
You know what I'm saying, I'm Barris and Ised.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
I call them Uncle Barris'.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
You know what I mean. Dex to is you know,
dance all fraternities this small so we all family and Robin,
Robin and I struck up a friendship at the f
one in Houston and meet him and white Cliff had
at a great party night hung out and you know, we.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
Just truked that friendship both.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
We kept texting back and forth and I was like, yo,
I got to join for you, and I sent it him.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
He was just like, Yo, this is fire. Let's go.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yeah, the record is amazing.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Thank you very no.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
We want to make history by you guys performing that
record for the first time on stage at r K
t U thirty year anniversary.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
It just might happen.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Might just happen. Right, you heard it here first first,
all right.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Some surprises.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
So you want to go back to the beginning for
the people here in the audience, the people watching, the
people listening wherever they're listening right now to teach me something. Uh,
your background stem this whole music career stemmed from the military.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Correct.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Yeah. I was in the US Marines for four years
serving the First Gulf War, and I used to run
and see cadences. Those cadences was later on I found
out was really vocal training. But how did I know
because I used to sing funny cadences just because I
(07:14):
like cracking jokes. You know, I don't drink or smoke,
so I just cracked jokes all the time. So if
you take it to yourself too serious, you need it.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
You crack jokes.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
Yeah, well I really make insults when it comes to you.
So I would. I would run and see cadences like
I don't know, but I've been told my CEO, where's
pany Who's you know what I mean? And I'll sing
those cadences out loud. And when I was doing Oh Carolina,
(07:42):
I decided I would just use that voice, so I said,
you know, Old Carolina, and then everybody was like, oh
my god, it's so great, we love it. And then
Virgin Records came and gave me a million pounds. At
that time when I was in England. I was like, wow,
this is crazy. And so the next record I wrote
was mister Boombaska. I said, let me use that for
mister LoVa. Yeah, and then he gave me another million.
(08:04):
I said, well I could get used to this. Ill
keep doing this right, Yeah, so you know, I just
I'll just do it on every record now, you know,
and if they pay me more, I'll.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Just start talking y'all.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
What's up?
Speaker 6 (08:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Hi everybody, no prospect. Yeah, I'm want to do the
rest of the interview like this just in case Kate
to you pay me.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
It's not happening. It's definitely not.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
But talk about a career pivot.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
So the pot is powered by Berkeley College, and at
Berkeley College we have a very large office of Military
and veteran affairs population. So what piece of advice would
you give those students that want to make that shift,
that want to do that pivot and maybe don't know
where to start.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
You need to go into the military, shift out of
out of the military. Oh okay, well you know I didn't.
I didn't do I'm I didn't go life. I say
life because in the military, to say, once you do
twenty years, you're a lifer. You know. I did four
years and I was like, okay, disable me. But it
did teach me everything I need to know and prepare
(09:14):
me for this job. You know. For instance, when I'm
if I'm doing interviews, I've been on a press press
day today from earlier this morning around six am, and
I'm probably gonna be I'm on a Sharry Show tomorrow,
which is another six am, you know, and I'll go
straight down till late. So to prepare you for this,
you know, it really takes a lot of discipline, and
(09:35):
the military provides that discipline for you. You could take that
discipline to do anything that you want in life because
you got that in the military. You can't even get
promoted unless you really even balancing your checkbook. We don't
have check books anymore, but even making sure your your
credit is good and all of that, because if it's not,
you're not getting promoted either, you know what I mean.
(09:56):
So it really prepares you for being there.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
You know.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
If I had it my way, everybody as soon as
you come out of high school should serve the military, right,
But I would just put a sciputation that you couldn't
go to war.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
It's a little tough, you.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Know what I said, Because even then with the Gulf War,
there was like, oh, this is a low casualty war,
you know, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. You know,
one son or daughter from her mom and her pop
is not low casualty. And I just think that when
you're that young, I think it should be it should
be mandatory, like a year or two years of the military,
(10:35):
and then after that it should be you making the
decision whether you want to stay in the military or not.
But within the first two years, no one should be deployed.
And I just think everybody would be straightened out. All
them kids who don't want to get up early and
all of that you know that dead because of your
gut in the house that don't do military straightened the
(10:55):
amount one time.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
Trust me, they.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Used to throw like a trash can down my squad
click on, get them get up. I didn't push ups
at the Drilldren's trucks and say you're gonna do push
ups until I'm tired. But he ain't doing nothing, so.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
We're gonna make you do push ups whenever you're late
in the studio. That's I think that's fair.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
You should do push ups until she is tired.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Wow, I like this game. I like this game, but
you're speaking.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
It's why I didn't go to the military.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
But going back to discipline, Discipline is so important in
any career path that you guys choose, and I do believe,
whether it's military or like even with our children, we
talk about with sports the biggest benefits, like, hey, we
don't care what sports is amazing, we don't care if
they become athletes, professional athletes, but the discipline that they're
getting with having to train, having to be there on time,
(11:44):
having to work with others is just a skill set
that's that everyone should have happen.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Ye, But well, kids, so it's you know, like all
my kids are gonna be spoiled, you know, it's it's
what it is because I'm spoiling. Yeah, yeah, you know,
and if you got money, they damn sure gonna be spoiled.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
My kids aren't spoiled at all.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Your kids.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
I have no kids. I have a dog and he's very.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
Spoilt and he's spoiled.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
He's super spoiled. US knows it.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Astra somewhere here there we go dogs dogs up there and.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
There you go. She's doing content.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
Mommy, I'm wearing hers, she's wearing her dog wearing my God.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
But we're speaking about transferable skills, and that applies to
any discipline that you pursue in life. If you look
at any situation, everything's a learning experience, right, even us
sitting here. You can have nuggets, you can take aways,
but I think the thought is really don't attempt to
replicate someone else, but instead to see what works for them,
and maybe that works for you or to your sons.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
And go and travel your own path.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Absolutely, yeah, yeah, definitely learning something. So we're always learning something.
You have to be willing to learn something. By the way,
every single day, right, we had an amazing guest on
our podcast that.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
What did you learn today?
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Pro style? Well, I learned to get to dress, I
learned how to dress to wear and gave me free
clothes today to Juju, Right, look at me, check my
pants and my shirt out.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I'm gonna learn that I have to give it right
back after this is over it too.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Yeah, Cale individuality lends him an outfit, he has to
give it back.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
We're doing grand ambassadorship today, right, it's just in the
podcast is I'm wearing a flood.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
The podcast is growing.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
We're growing, We're doing it well. You know some of
us work. Oh wow, Okay, all jokes aside.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
You know, I love you.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
We did say we were going to give you some
surprises today, okay, promoting some surprises. So we all know
that Shaggy is performing at the KSU thirtieth anniversary concert.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
No surprise there, yees, So that's out.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
But what you don't know is that that Teach Me
Something podcast will be present at the Gee You thirtieth
Anniversary concert.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Fantastic.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
So we're gonna have some activations.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
There's gonna be some surprises triggling in, so tune in
and you know what we.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
May bring you on stage. That's going to be a surprise.
You ready more?
Speaker 3 (14:13):
You told you?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Ready?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
All right?
Speaker 5 (14:15):
No you can.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I'm a page and dance like Saggie's you know, I.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Mean, like a backup dancer, the backup dancer type of thing.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
No, I want to take twerk dances.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Well, I'm out, all right, I like that very quick.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I like, ye, I'm out.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Where's Carolyn Whitman?
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Why she's going to be a tourk dancer? You just
nominated just immediately Carolyn.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Shout out to Carolyn. There's Carolyn's back.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
So if any of you want to have a place
at the ks you thirty anniversary, are interesting and doing
something with us, hit up Carolyn. She's going to be here,
you know, all night, well until seven thirty when we finish.
But catch Carolyn. Carolyn is a powerhouse. So shout out
to Carolyn Whitman that makes all of the world go
around at Iheartwork Lessons, the creative brain behind the podcast.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Karlyn shout out to flow Rider, who's also going to
be there, is going to be there, Paul Russell, and
we have some more people that we're gonna announce, So
it's going to be an amazing, amazing.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
So who's going to do that? When he sings that song?
Speaker 3 (15:17):
I think pro volunteered himself.
Speaker 7 (15:19):
Gosh, no viral. I mixed them up in the spirit
of surprises, ma'am, do you want to share any Are
you able to share anything?
Speaker 3 (15:35):
For your performance?
Speaker 5 (15:36):
For my performance, there will be uh pelvis movements, okay,
because they said if the spine don't jerk, nothing works,
So all right, surprise.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Talking about surprises, is there anything outside of music that
nobody knows about that.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
You want to share? What's that your work?
Speaker 6 (16:00):
It's a lot going on right now.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
We have time, Shacky, I have clearly, Yeah, we have time.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Okay, we want to know we have a good story
on a podcast.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Let's go, No, I have. I'm actually doing a musical
right now, Yeah, with me and my brother Sting, and
it's called The Last Ship. And I we just sold
out Amsterdam for a month, and I just came back
from Paris, which we just sold like sixty thousand tickets
(16:31):
throughout the for the last.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Four weeks in Paris.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
And we're going to be at the Metropolitan uppera House
here in New York City on June ninth to the fourteenth.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Congratulations on the sold out shows.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
That's incredible.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Yeah, so come and check out my acting chops on there.
It's starring me and Sting. It's called The Last Ship.
It's about it's really about stinks. Three personal to Sting.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
He wrote it about his childhood.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
They used to make ships, like eighty percent of the
world's ships used to be made in Newcastle in England,
and he's from that town, that shipyard town. And of
course technology came in and just economics within itself. The
economy got bad and they shut the shipyard down, and
(17:22):
all the workers decided that they were gonna build the
very last ship and finish it even though they shut
it down. So they broke in and built the ship
and finished it. The stories about that.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
Here's also a love.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
Story with Gideon, who's the main character, where he really
wanted to leave out of that town to do something
with himself, and he came back because he had he
had a child that was there and a love a
love affair, and so it's a really really cool story.
I play the Ferryman, which is I am I am
(17:55):
now not that it's okay.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
How I want.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
I didn't say very man, Okay, I am the fairy Man,
all right, And.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
I'm really I'm really a ghost.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
I'm I'm really the the the angel of death in
the way from the present world to the after life,
you know. But I'm like the only two characters could
see me is Jackie White, which is Sting's character, and Gideon,
which is the lead character, and they're the only two
could see me, and I get to be really, you know,
(18:35):
kind of funny. There's all even a crazy bar scene
and where everybody's singing and drinking them and I'm the
ghost like down in my guinness because when you die,
you don't necessarily have to go somewhere bad.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
You probably go you come cross over with me. It
was like, hey, we got the party. Yeah, so that
was the whole vibe, you know. I mean, so it's
come check it out.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
It's at the met You could all come there and
you know, and and check out my vibe over there,
me and Sting live. You know, I would give you
free tickets, but all want you to play for them anyway.
So well.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
You're red pro are you withholding jokes?
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Am I?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
What withholding jokes?
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Now? He was alive?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Yeah? Yeah, we have all not trying to keep it
somewhat professional.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
You know, what are you trying to say?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Shagger is my brother? Oh, shagg is my guy?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Not even with an audience, guys, not even with an audience.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Does anybody out there can we does anybody out there
have something that you want to ask Shaggy? By the way,
if we like, anybody want to raise their hand and
ask a question, anybody or Everybody's good.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
It's just interesting. That's full circle.
Speaker 8 (19:43):
Yeah, I'm here in New York watching you yet I
watched you in nineteen ninety seven in Uganda, yes, yes,
and you had a lodge following there. And now I'm
with Berkeley College.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
So it's just interesting, Okay.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
I like I like Uguon.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
I've been going to I used to go to Yugand
almost every year back in the days. Funny stories that
I think I played a statum Uganda, Kenya, that I
played a I played a concert in a stadium was
me and Patra and burn a Boy.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
Yeah, I remember that. Yeah, and burn a Boy reminded
me the other day when I was at the Grammar.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
He looks at me, he says, uh, you know we
played at a concert and he had opened at that
concert back that time.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
And I was like yeah, I said, yeah, yo, I
was the one that got weed for y'all.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Look where he's at now.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Yeah, and he's super, super huge. So it's it's a
lot of a lot of them times, you know, It's crazy.
And throughout the journey of my career, there's a lot
of people. Even we were doing promo in England and
the Spice Girl that was opening for us at them times,
and I mean in sync at one point it open
for us. Your nip time. That's how long I've been
doing this. Yeah, you know, so it's great to see
(21:04):
like all these artists.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Get with you doing this for so long. And it's funny.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Every time I've talked to you, you mentioned all these
incredible places around the world, places that I don't even
know how to pronounce, right, What is some of the
most memorable If there's anything that jumps out place that city,
place that you've performed at.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
I like performing at the.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Like remote places, you know, like I just did Saudi Arabia,
Like and this is my third time going to Saudi Arabia.
I remember the first time going. It was nineteen ninety five.
I thinks all the night I went to it's my
first time going to Dubai and it was not but desert,
like camels and desert, and then I go you go
back there now it's like a major city, you know
(21:47):
what I mean. So it it's crazy to see transformation
and cities like like that that I've been to.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
You have been doing this a long time.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Oh yeah, I've been touring it for Yeah, bro, it's
been it's been a minute, you know.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
So it's cool. It's not bad. Oh yeah, He's something
that Mike, Oh.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
We got I got the Mica this on man legend.
My name is Fox. We grew up listening to you,
Okay after all these years by was it you? Uh?
Speaker 2 (22:18):
You know.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
That's that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
A Hi, Shaggy, nice to see you again.
Speaker 9 (22:28):
I was in one of your music videos, yes, with
DJ Rebel and mohambi ot me love you.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
I forgot it was a long time ago.
Speaker 9 (22:37):
But my question to you is, what is like the
biggest misconception that people have about you? Has Shaggy versus
who you really are when the music stops.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
Oh, I just think people think I'm more serious than
I am. I'm a really I'm a goofball. Yeah yeah,
I like I like to laugh. I like people who laugh.
I don't like people take them so serious. I think
that's one of the biggest misconceptions, you know, and I
think probably a lot of people think.
Speaker 8 (23:09):
That.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
There's some people might.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Look at me and think that what I sing on
the record is not my real voice. Some have done
that because I speak like this normally.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
It's like, is that really?
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
That's look, that was a great question.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Yeah, we have time for one more question.
Speaker 10 (23:30):
Yes, so I feel that what makes you super interesting
it's a diversity of all your projects. Well thanks how
you switch from the different genres of music, but also
you bring the old school with the MWS school with
what you did with Frank Sinatra. So I'm curious to
find out and forgive me if I'm if I'm if
I don't realize that you may have done some sort
(23:53):
of collaboration like this, but what you do something that
will bring the Latin music in to your your your music,
your your creation, and what would be the Latino collaborator,
okay artists.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
That you would I've done many collaborate I just did
a collaboration was it the top of last year with.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
Me Anita and Wessen? Listen, listen, we see so we
did that.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
So I've been doing those for years, you know, me
and Nikki Jam. There is Sunset, which was me and
Nikki Jam and Faruko, you know what I mean. So
We've done a lot of those. I'm just gonna give
you another story just because you know, I'm going to
give you the history of it.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
You should know this pro style.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Do you know the first let me first reggae reggaeton record?
Do you know a record called the Boom Boom. I'm
another one called Mobeta Mobela all right, all right, so
you know the guy that did it was a guy
called el Henral and he's Panamanian. So and Heneral used
to go to a school called Erasmus Hall in Brooklyn. Yeah,
(25:03):
and so that's the school that I used to go.
Him and I used to be in the same lunch room, right,
and I would they would beat the bench, the desk,
the lunch room desk, and I would spit lyrics and
dance all and he'd be on the side spitting it
amongst the Panamanian guys, doing it in Spanish. And if
you look at the earlier the earlier records that Elenro did,
he did like oh Chabaran's record. In these records, he
(25:25):
would do them in Spanish word for word. So take
dance all records and do them in Spanish. And those
records became successful. And there's a guy, do you know,
Goonghi Rivera. You got it?
Speaker 6 (25:37):
So Gungu used to do.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
These clubs uptown at the time, right, And we used
to that used to be the crazy Spanish parties that
he used to keep.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
And me and heile en Erl used to go up there.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
So those was really the first set of And by
the way, those two records and the Boomboo, right, both
those records were released on VP Records. I don't know
if anybody know that, which is a reggae label. And
I'm saying, and this guy called Carl Williams, that's the
guy that was producing those records, and what he did
was named the genre reggaetne, right, because they used to
(26:12):
just call it Spanish reggae, you know it and remember
and they call it reggaetne and of course after.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
This what what it was.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
That's that's crazy as the story. That's the story that
I'm telling you because that's where I was in saw right.
So and now it's a billion dollar industry, but that's
really where it started.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Ah, we learned some stuff today.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Gems were dropped like it.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
I just you know, that just shows how old I am.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Having a career.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Uh that has transcended, right, I mean you you really
are within your right and that what is the one
thing that keeps you going in those moments that you
may be facing adversity or you think you know, I'm
having a bad day.
Speaker 6 (26:58):
Today, I think I don't really look at it as
been a bad day. Is just a bad day. Be
lucky you have a bad day and not a bad life.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
So I mean, you know, we're full of adversity. You know,
at the end of the day, I could, I could
survive a bad day.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
It's fine, you know.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
I think the hardest thing for an artist like me
right now is to find is to be inspired.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
Find inspiration.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
That's probably my biggest challenge because I'm also a person
that get bored easily, and I'm allergic to boredom, so
I continuously try to find something to do every time
I get bored.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
People easy too.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
So if you're yeah, and you have the right, you know,
like who needs somebody that's boring? Like, you know, if
you're not, if somebody in your life is not bringing
value to your life or inspiring you to do to
be rate to get them out of your life, we
shouldn't be scared of closing chapters.
Speaker 8 (28:05):
You know.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
Sometimes sometimes we make it harder, you know, because we
decide that it's hard to really cut people off. But
it's not. You just go block, yeah, you know, you know,
and bottom line, if you block me, and I call
at least three times and you don't pick up. I
get the message. Yeah, you know you're making changes, and
(28:29):
I'm one of those changes. You know, Now, if I
continue to call four or five, six times, you should
turn around.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
And say it's a good thing.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
I blocked that motherfucker. You know what I'm saying. That's
you can't be scared of doing that. You could close
the chapter because there's something that's always there for you
and I look forward to.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
The next chapter.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Well, there's a reason season, right for some people, answering
or exiting your life and purging is healthy.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
As we grow, we change.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
Oh yeah, I mean person it's a transition. Yeah, the
person you are now is not the same person who
are five years ago, and you will not be the
next same person next five years. What are the odds
that people and you, that our friends are going to
grow in the same way as you changed? No way.
Have you all had friends that you've known from when
you was in high school and you were like inseparable
and then you see them later in life and it's like,
(29:19):
oh my god, here's my normal. Let's catch up, and
then you're like, not that personally for me, because that
person served their purpose in your life already You've already
learned everything you need to learn from that person, You
know what I mean? Move on, you know, let's not
let's all fight against boredom. It sucks that we should
make that and be inspired. I love that.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Let's fight against boredom?
Speaker 6 (29:41):
Yeah against all.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Right, new hashtag, guys, new hashtag.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
And in true teach Me Something podcast fashion, we always
end on a notes of legacy.
Speaker 6 (29:56):
You're talking the wrong person.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
No wait, wait, so if.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
You could articulate in one word what you would want
your legacy to be, what would that word be?
Speaker 6 (30:08):
All right?
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Boredom?
Speaker 3 (30:12):
So first one of season three, Shaggy, no pressure.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
No. The reason why I say this because I don't
believe in legacy, Okay, and I'll explain to you why
I don't. Anybody here has a great grandfather. Do any
of you know him or her know him? You know him? Well?
Speaker 6 (30:31):
Right? Did the rest of you know him? Probably not?
Speaker 5 (30:35):
Probably was a great man, right, but right now he's
just a picture on the wall. That's all all of
us is going to be. All Right, You look at Michael,
my kid right now, I have kids, My little daughter
I'd tell him about Michael Jackson.
Speaker 6 (30:49):
They say, who's that.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
Remember the other day when Kanye and Rihanna did a
record with Paul McCartney, Remember that joint, right, and all
the kids were texting Kanye and Rihanna is helping this
old white guy blow up. Yeah, And it was like,
that's Paul McCartney. Who's Paul McCartney. He's a beatle?
Speaker 6 (31:12):
What's a beatle?
Speaker 5 (31:14):
I'm just saying, it doesn't matter how huge you are,
You're just going to be a picture on the wall.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
We are all servants.
Speaker 5 (31:26):
You might look at me and say, shaggy, Oh he
wrote bombastic and wasn't me in Oh, such genius And
I don't think it was genius, but anyway, such genius
and all that thing, and he wrote I might have
physically written those songs, but I didn't. That was ordained
by a higher level, a higher beam. Those songs was
you know, they were bestowed up on you based on
(31:48):
whether or not you were worthy of them. It's like
building a house with four walls out of a brick,
and then you get to the roof and you need
a hammer, and you can't afford a hammer.
Speaker 6 (31:59):
I was like, I can't afford to put the roof on.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
And God said, here's mister bombastic, And I'm like, well shit,
I could build a roof and three more houses for everybody.
You know what I'm saying. This is how I look
at it. These are tools for you to change people's life.
Your purpose is to change people's life. We're just servants,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (32:19):
I go on tour.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
On my tour, I might have three hundred people that
are truck drivers, that are concession stand workers. They might
be stage handlers, you know, they might be parking lot attendance,
you know what I mean. That's three hundred electric bills,
school fees, you know what I mean. You know mortgagees,
(32:41):
you know what I mean. And and they might have
a kid that probably you know, gets a scholarship to
go to Ivy League school and they find a care
for cancer. I don't know. You're just part of an equation.
So for me, I look at everything that I'm doing
as me being doing a service. You're in the service business.
You're in the service business. We're all in the service
business based on what the talent was given. And you
(33:03):
ever get to a part when I'm making records and
I'm just working hard and I'm just not getting any
hits anymore, and there's nobody buying my tickets to go
to my concert and everything, and that God just comes
in and says, thank you for your service.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
You're done.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
You've done it, you know what I mean. You can't
be mad at that. Everybody that I touch, I've changed
their lives. I wrote Hotshot record album. We sold ten million.
There was eleven people that bought homes and started their lives.
Now I don't talk to half of them because they're assholes,
but nevertheless, you know, they started a laugh their lives
and did something really really well. And that's what your
(33:40):
job is. So legacy for me doesn't really you know,
it doesn't stand the same for me. We're pictures on
the wall. So if whatever you want to remember me for,
you can, because I know it's just going to be
for a time. Because you know, you ask a kid
who's Elvis right now, they don't know either, and that
guy did some things, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
So I'm just that's how I feel about it.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
But that's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
You spoke about purpose and giving back and serving your community.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
And all should there's a time in your life you're
gonna go through it and then you're gonna just realize
what purpose is.
Speaker 6 (34:15):
And when that happens, it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Just give us a word, man, Just give us a word, bro.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
There are a lot of those serve purpose community.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
Yeah, there's a lot.
Speaker 6 (34:28):
There's a lot of words in there.
Speaker 8 (34:29):
Man.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
You know what the word I'll give you, bro, I'm
gonna leave you with this love there it is. There
was that so hard love, Noah, Because I'm gonna tell
you what, It's one of the most amazing emotions you
could feel. But it's also dangerous too because you you
have you ever have. Take for instance, you have a
(34:52):
car that you know it ain't worth nothing, you know
what I mean, and you still pour money into it,
and your wife looks at you's.
Speaker 6 (34:59):
Like it's over. Yeah, but you're like, I got laid
in the backseat of that car.
Speaker 5 (35:06):
You know what kind of sentiments with that? I'm pro
style here, man, I mean, but at the end of
the day, that's sentiments that you're holding on to that
might not be serving you. So that emotion is a
is a crazy emotion. Love is wonderful, but love also
makes you vulnerable and You gotta be careful because people
(35:27):
will take your love, you know what I mean, and
and tap into your weakness.
Speaker 6 (35:31):
You know what I mean. But it is a wonderful,
wonderful feeling. If you ever in love, go for it.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Yeah, ah, okay, we heard you down here, all right.
I mean, he's schooled, doesn't.
Speaker 5 (35:49):
Because y'all didn't pay you for this, well, this is
when we fed you. You did feed Yeah, that was free.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
This is when you performed.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Y'all didn't pay for that food. DJ put the track on,
Quiet performed well, Shaggy on behalf of myself, I'm sure.
Penny Berkeley College, thank you, the iHeart family, everyone in
the building. We first of all want to say congratulation
on congratulations on so many years of six uh, congratulations
(36:23):
on the new record.
Speaker 5 (36:24):
New record. By the way, Shaggy and Robin think looking
lovely fellas, could I see all the hands of all
the guys who are here tonight with their girl.
Speaker 6 (36:38):
My condolences.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Download the track and play it.
Speaker 5 (36:41):
But download the track. It's a beautiful track. It's like
prophylactics you needed, so yes, go for it.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
We wanted to thank you for coming and joining us
on the teach me something podcast.
Speaker 5 (36:52):
Ye, we're having a conversation.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
This is this is what it's all about. That's what
to teach me something podcast is.
Speaker 5 (37:03):
It's fun that you could call it teach you something,
you know, because I know what she could teach me.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
You know, Oh here we go.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
You know, you know, balances things out for me.
Speaker 5 (37:14):
There's a lot to learn from pro Style, right, because
pro Style is you know, he's pretty much Jamaican. Yeah, yeah,
you know my rooms because that boy know how to
keep a job.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
That's right, that's all right. I thought you were going
to take some of my best cool man.
Speaker 5 (37:33):
You thought it was going somewhere else with it, right,
that's right, hard work over here, half approcess.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
He keeps teaching us every episode, that's right.
Speaker 6 (37:44):
Fantastic.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Don't jump into the smoker, right because.
Speaker 5 (37:49):
She cool know what.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
She was she was upstairs before this startsok, edition, This is.
Speaker 5 (38:00):
Great, fantastic man.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Yeah, we'll get you out of here after we have
a few more tiktoks me and Greeve.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Isn't that what's happening?
Speaker 3 (38:06):
Yeah, we have more to film. Just trust me.
Speaker 5 (38:09):
Yeah, the process, Well, I trust you, I don't I agree?
Speaker 3 (38:12):
I agree?
Speaker 2 (38:13):
Well we definitely, we're gonna look forward to seeing you.
First of all, again, everyone here is going to be
in the building of right, everyone's going to be there
for our thirty year anniversary concert event Hammerstein Ballroom right
here in the heart in New York City, May eighth,
So that's gonna be amazing. I can't wait to see
you come on stage and you know, bring bring, and
you know it's going to it's gonna be time. I'm
(38:33):
definitely yeah.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
Well, thank you all for being here with us as
our live studio audience. So shout out to all of
you for making your debut on to Teach Me Something Podcast.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
I am Penny Dollas, I am DJ Prostow, and I'm
Shuggy and you could be listening to kat you it's
iHeart Darling. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (38:55):
I will take all of their jobs, but it doesn't
pay well.
Speaker 4 (39:00):
And this is presented by Berkeley College and iHeart Podcast.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Thank you all for joining. Tune in next time. Hey,
thanks for listening.
Speaker 4 (39:09):
Tune in next week for all new episode of Teach
Me Something, brought to you by Berkeley College.
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